REAR SIGNALS NECESSARY
Most of our driving nowadays is clone ove r roads which are just wide enough for two streams of traffic. Somewhere ahead there is likely to be a bus or a Ford v.an travelling rather more slowly than the average touring car. The driver immediately astern of such impediment overlaps it on the off side by a foot or so, in order io seise on the first safe opportunity of passing it. The driver astern of him overlaps another foot to see if the same opportunity will afford enough clearance for him to pass the impediment also. Kvery two minutes or so both cars swing in towards the near side again as an oncoming vehicle approaches. You can generally see what the. drivers of open cars arc going to do without the aid of arm signals. But the lug closed cars arc a nuisance, for you ha.ve to overlap them finite a lot for their arm signals to lie visible. So I meekly suggest that all closed cars should exhibit some form of automatic or lover roar signalling, when tins incessant swinging in and out would cease to be necessary.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3497, 5 November 1926, Page 10
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193REAR SIGNALS NECESSARY Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3497, 5 November 1926, Page 10
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